Xfce in the news

[Andrew Conkling]

On 12/6/05, houghi <houghi at houghi.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:58:35AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > If you select a list of wallpapers in xfdesktop properties, it'll be
> > random when you reload xfesktop.
> >
> > See:
> > http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfdesktop.html#xfdesktop-background
>
> Looks good when I run it from a terminal. I pu the following in crontab:
>
> 1-59/2  *       * * *   export DISPLAY=0:0; /usr/bin/xfdesktop -reload
> 1-59/2  *       * * *   export DISPLAY=0:1; /usr/bin/xfdesktop -reload
>
> I get an error on the second one:
> (xfdesktop:20837): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> That although it works. I will still have to see in the long run if this
> realy does the word 'random' any good. The list is 24000+ long and with
> others I noticed that it was not really random. It picked some pictures
> much more then others and some it did not at all. Probably because the
> list was too long. :-)

There's always the forum:
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=1384.0

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